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...sixth grade. How can we talk rationally about such "reasons" for Letourneau's behavior as her husband's having a dead-end job or her father's dying of cancer or her having "bipolar disorder"? America is suffering from the Death of Common Sense. STEVEN M. WALK Great Neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 25, 1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...that the malignancy had spread to her lymph nodes. Bradfield got the works: a double mastectomy and six months of chemotherapy, followed by radiation and then more chemo. It bought her 18 months of symptom-free life. Then one hot August night, she recalls, "I went to rub my neck, and there was a tumor about the size of a marshmallow." Bradfield was already depressed--her daughter had just died in a car accident--and she never wanted to face chemo again. "I thought I was probably going to die, and I didn't want to die bald and throwing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Molecular Revolution | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...found in abnormally high numbers on the surface of about 40% of tumor cells, including about 90% of lung-cancer tumors, some prostate tumors and other malignancies. Researchers at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston are testing an antibody to EGF receptors in patients with advanced head and neck cancers. But most other groups, including teams at drug makers Pfizer, Novartis and Zeneca, are using smaller molecules that, unlike antibodies, could ultimately be taken orally. "We have a very exciting tablet that is taken once a day," says Dr. George Blackledge, head of new cancer projects at the Zeneca Group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Molecular Revolution | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...want more? Do you want the whole skinny on the depth of Faye Yager's rage? The second husband was a nut job too. A monster. He held a gun to her neck, threatened her, played with her, and when she finally told him to go to hell, he pulled the trigger and shot himself in the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hide And Seek | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...been sued a dozen times by her count and never lost, and in a 1991 trial, one mother said that while she was under review for flight Faye kept her children from her and coerced them into lies about their father. But that case was a mosquito at her neck. Faye slapped it and walked away clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hide And Seek | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

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